Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11439 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

choysechoice

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 855 times in 353 works
Consistency: 99.0% (855 of 863)
Reach if approved: ~907 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: choice
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 863 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (855 changes in 353 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 855)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… discent of the Priesthode, of the birthright, & inheritance of the kingdome, he made especial choysechoice of Abel, Isaac, Iacob, & Dauid, who had no interest at all in the right …
With rule
… discent of the Priesthode, of the birthright, & inheritance of the kingdome, he made especial choysechoice of Abel, Isaac, Iacob, & Dauid, who had no interest at all in the right …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne fathers houſe, if he had not felt this diuine prouidence, fatherly care, frée choyſechoice, and Election of him and his ſeede? By the whiche liuely feeling of God …
With rule
… owne fathers houſe, if he had not felt this diuine prouidence, fatherly care, frée choyſechoice, and Election of him and his ſeede? By the whiche liuely feeling of God …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… Perottꝰ / Polycattus / Crestonus / Calepinus / Guarinꝰ / & soche other vocabulystes: heresis / is not els but a choysechoice / opiniō / or secte. Not moche vnlyke vnto this doth Saynt Luke vse yt in …
With rule
… Perottꝰ / Polycattus / Crestonus / Calepinus / Guarinꝰ / & soche other vocabulystes: heresis / is not els but a choysechoice / opiniō / or secte. Not moche vnlyke vnto this doth Saynt Luke vse yt in …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prophanenes, and their marriadge is therein lawfull. But it ſtandeth not ſo with the choyſechoice of Miniſters in the Church, For 1. prophane and godleſſe perſons (ſuch as theſe aſſemblies …
With rule
… prophanenes, and their marriadge is therein lawfull. But it ſtandeth not ſo with the choyſechoice of Miniſters in the Church, For 1. prophane and godleſſe perſons (ſuch as theſe aſſemblies …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the boſome of the father: and for the workemen, we are not at our choyſechoice to take where it ſeemeth good vnto vs, but they are appointed to our …
With rule
… the boſome of the father: and for the workemen, we are not at our choyſechoice to take where it ſeemeth good vnto vs, but they are appointed to our …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… delicious fare, and pamper this filthie ſacke of the fleſhe with exceſſiue ſuperfluitie and choyſechoice of the daintieſt Iunkettes.
With rule
… delicious fare, and pamper this filthie ſacke of the fleſhe with exceſſiue ſuperfluitie and choyſechoice of the daintieſt Iunkettes.
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt bee to bee crucified, hee will not vſe the Virgin Mary or ſuch choyſechoice pieces; but a Iudas, a Pilate, a Caiphas, and ſuch like.
With rule
… Chriſt bee to bee crucified, hee will not vſe the Virgin Mary or ſuch choyſechoice pieces; but a Iudas, a Pilate, a Caiphas, and ſuch like.
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… iuſt and moſt wiſe God, doth no leſſe come betwixt, than when he vſeth choyſechoice and holy inſtrumentes, to the accompliſhment of things of themſelues moſt good and excellent …
With rule
… iuſt and moſt wiſe God, doth no leſſe come betwixt, than when he vſeth choyſechoice and holy inſtrumentes, to the accompliſhment of things of themſelues moſt good and excellent …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 120 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02178

Printed
ChoyseChoice must be vsed of those in whom we will disclose, especially of a spirituall …
With rule
ChoyseChoice must be vsed of those in whom we will disclose, especially of a spirituall …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 363 · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

Printed
… twyned neck and twinned mynde, altogether ententife on the place he parteth fro. Whoſe ChoyſeChoice, had it light ſo luckelie as it ought nor needed I at this preſent …
With rule
… twyned neck and twinned mynde, altogether ententife on the place he parteth fro. Whoſe ChoyſeChoice, had it light ſo luckelie as it ought nor needed I at this preſent …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness A13554

Printed
ChoyseChoice objects for the eye, 5. 284
With rule
ChoyseChoice objects for the eye, 5. 284
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · Open in the reader